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...which category Elizabeth Smart belongs was unclear last week. In the early hours of Wednesday the 14-year-old disappeared from her bedroom in the most agonizing of circumstances. Her abductor crept into the seven-bedroom home in the woodsy Federal Heights area of Salt Lake City, Utah, after midnight and took Elizabeth at gunpoint, as her terrified sister Mary Katherine, 9, looked on. He didn't seem to know the house or Elizabeth. He allowed her to put on a pair of canvas shoes before they left. But he told Mary Katherine that her big sister would come...
Most people think their children are angels, at least some of the time. But Elizabeth Smart fits the storybook image better than many. She's a good student and athlete. Tall and willowy, she had played harp at her grandfather's funeral two days before she disappeared. She favors pale blue. Her cousin has heard her say idiot once. On the surface, there was no reason she should have been singled out by anyone...
...kidnapped and murdered near San Diego in February. The trial of her alleged killer, a divorced engineer who lives two houses away and had a passing acquaintance with her mother, made parents mentally check their own vigilance. And bizarrely, even as police and volunteers searched frantically on Wednesday for Elizabeth, an eerily similar drama was unfolding 210 miles north, in Idaho Falls, Idaho...
Across Utah, people are praying that the Smarts will also be reunited with their daughter. Elizabeth's father Edward, a mortgage-investment broker, who looked increasingly worn and baffled all week, collapsed and was hospitalized by week's end. Although locals were phoning in tips at the rate of one a minute, police captain Scott Atkinson said on Friday that none had provided solid leads. Family members have not been ruled out as suspects, but police say they have been extremely cooperative...
...With reporting by Elizabeth Coady/Chicago, Jeanne DeQuine/Miami, Deborah Fowler/Houston, Laura Randall/Cincinnati and Nathan Thornburgh/Seattle